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A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form; as: The knob on the hilt of a sword. Macaulay. The knob or protuberant part of a saddlebow. The top . Chaucer. A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.

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  • FORMALITY
    The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
  • OBJECTIVENESS
    Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
  • FORMICARY
    The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
  • FORMULIZE
    To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
  • FORMERLY
    In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
  • OBJECTIST
    One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev.
  • SWORDLESS
    Destitute of a sword.
  • SWORDSMANSHIP
    The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
  • SWORD-SHAPED
    Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.
  • FORMICAROID
    Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
  • FORMIDABLY
    In a formidable manner.
  • OBJECT
    before, to oppose; ob + jacere to throw: cf. objecter. See 1. To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose. Of less account some knight thereto object, Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove. Fairfax. Some strong
  • FORMICATE
    Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
  • OBJECTIVATE
    To objectify.
  • FORME
    See PATTé
  • FORMEDON
    A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.
  • FORMAT
    The shape and size of a book; hence, its external form. The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work. G. H. Putnam. One might, indeed, protest that the format is a little
  • SWORDING
    Slashing with a sword. Tennyson.
  • FORMYL
    A univalent radical, H.C:O, regarded as the essential residue of formic acid and aldehyde. Formerly, the radical methyl, CH3.
  • PROTUBERANT
    Prominent, or excessively prominent; bulging beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; swelling; as, a protuberant joint; a protuberant eye. -- Pro*tu"ber*ant*ly, adv.
  • OMNIFORMITY
    The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
  • INFORMITY
    Want of regular form; shapelessness.
  • FALCIFORM
    Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
  • DEFORMER
    One who deforms.
  • DIVERSIFORM
    Of a different form; of varied forms.
  • PREFORM
    To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
  • VARIFORM
    Having different shapes or forms.
  • RESINIFORM
    Having the form of resin.
  • VILLIFORM
    Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
  • BIFORM
    Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.
  • REFORMALIZE
    To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
  • FULL-FORMED
    Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.
  • SCORIFORM
    In the form of scoria.
  • PENNIFORM
    Having the form of a feather or plume.
  • REFORMATIVE
    Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
  • MALCONFORMATION
    Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
  • WELL-INFORMED
    Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.
  • DENDRIFORM
    Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.

 

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